Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
- That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
- We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
- On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about Mankins Mill (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Mankins Mill. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Name Variations for Mankins Mill ...
When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.
Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.
- A typical abbreviation for Mankins Mill: Mankins Ml. (or less commonly used: Mankins Mll.)
- While the name of this community is Mankins Mill, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Mankins Mill may originally have been Mankin's Mill.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Mankins Mill might be written as Mankin Mill.
If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Mankins Mill is located in Stephens County.
To see how the shape of Texas' counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Stephens County: Callahan, Eastland, Palo Pinto, Shackelford, Throckmorton & Young.
Below are the counties that are near Mankins Mill. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Mankins Mill:
- Stephens County (The home county of Mankins Mill)
- The following are listed by their distance from Mankins Mill, with the one closest to Mankins Mill listed first.
- Eolian
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Eolian is located in Stephens County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eolian
- Eureka
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Eureka is located in Stephens County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eureka
- Breckenridge
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Wayland
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Wayland is located in Stephens County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wayland
- Gunsight ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Gunsight is located in Stephens County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gunsight
- Necessity
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Necessity is located in Stephens County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Necessity
- La Casa ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- La Casa is located in Stephens County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Casa
- Caddo
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Callahan County
- The following are listed by their distance from Mankins Mill, with the one closest to Mankins Mill listed first.
- Putnam
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Baird
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Belle Plain ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Belle Plain is located in Callahan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belle Plain
- Eastland County
- The following are listed by their distance from Mankins Mill, with the one closest to Mankins Mill listed first.
- Cisco
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Eastland
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Olden
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Mangum ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Mangum is located in Eastland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mangum
- Ranger
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Nimrod ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Nimrod is located in Eastland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nimrod
- Carbon
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Shackelford County
- The following are listed by their distance from Mankins Mill, with the one closest to Mankins Mill listed first.
- Moran
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Albany
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Fort Griffin
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Fort Griffin is located in Shackelford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Griffin
- Throckmorton County
- Woodson
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Young County
- The following are listed by their distance from Mankins Mill, with the one closest to Mankins Mill listed first.
- Eliasville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Eliasville is located in Young County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eliasville
- Murray
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Murray is located in Young County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Murray
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Mankins Mill, see our County-by-County Page for Mankins Mill.
Cemeteries Near Mankins Mill ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Mankins Mill.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Mankins Mill - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Mankins Mill covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Mankins Mill, with the one closest to Mankins Mill listed first.
- Battle Creek Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Shady Grove Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Plum Branch Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Buck Mtn. Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Brushy Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Parrish Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Lynch Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Johnson Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Moran Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Cauble Family Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Harpersville Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Post Oak Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Continue List (55 more) ...
- Hart Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Baker Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Greer Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<4>
While we didn't find Mankins Mill in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Mankins Mill.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Mankins Mill, with the one closest to Mankins Mill listed first.
- Eolian
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Eolian is located in Stephens County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eolian
- Breckenridge
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Gunsight ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Gunsight is located in Stephens County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gunsight
- Wayland
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Wayland is located in Stephens County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wayland
- Albany
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Cisco
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Putnam
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- La Casa ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- La Casa is located in Stephens County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Casa
- Fort Griffin
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Fort Griffin is located in Shackelford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Griffin
- Eastland
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Caddo
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Scranton
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Scranton is located in Eastland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scranton
- Continue List (10 more) ...
- Olden
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Ranger
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Tiffin
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Tiffin is located in Eastland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tiffin
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Mankins Mill. See our List of 1890's Communities around Mankins Mill.
Newspapers Published in Mankins Mill ...
An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.
Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 52 newspapers that have been published in the area around Mankins Mill.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Mankins Mill, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Mankins Mill.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Mankins Mill:
- Websites specific to Texas
- Pages specific to Stephens County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Callahan County
- Eastland County
- Shackelford County
- Throckmorton County
- Young County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Texas
Footnotes ...
| <1> | It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties). |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com. |
| <4> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Mankins Mill, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <5> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Mankins Mill) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |